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Cuckoo
peter_the_piper
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in Gardening
Not strictly moneysaving but has anyone else noticed the lack of cuckoos this year? We normally start hearing them from mid April but none this year.
I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.
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Yep I hear one every night at dusk and every morning (if I'm up early enough for the dawn corus). We've just moved to the countryside and it's the first time I've heard one for years. The call comes from the same direction each time.0
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We have one (?) in the same place in the woods every year, same this year, always a marker of spring for me.
But cuckoos are known to be dwindling over here in the UK. Like most other things
If anyone who sprays or uses anything nasty in their garden comes on here and complains about the lack of cuckoos, they deserve everything they get. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
I think you'll find that cuckoos don't often try to get insects from your average garden so i don't think thats the cause.Lotus-eater wrote: »We have one (?) in the same place in the woods every year, same this year, always a marker of spring for me.
But cuckoos are known to be dwindling over here in the UK. Like most other things If anyone who sprays or uses anything nasty in their garden comes on here and complains about the lack of cuckoos, they deserve everything they get.I'd rather be an Optimist and be proved wrong than a Pessimist and be proved right.0 -
I was drawing a general conclusion. If anyone uses anything to kill wildlife which is poisonous and gets into the food chain, how can they turn round and complain about the loss of wildlife?
Either they don't understand, or don't care.Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.0 -
According to Spring Watch on BBC, lots of migratory birds were held up by the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano.0
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We went to Lincolnshire about 3 weeks ago and there appeared to be a load of them in the Louth area. And one can be continually heard calling on the Springwatch webcam last week. On a side issue i was absolutely thrilled when the avocets gave birth to 4 chicks over the weekend !-despite the concerns of the expert . Gotta hope that the kestrel that was in the trees stays on a vole diet. !"if the state cannot find within itself a place for those who peacefully refuse to worship at its temples, then it’s the state that’s become extreme".Revd Dr Giles Fraser on Radio 4 20170
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It's the opposite for me actually. I've never heard them before, but this year I hear cuckoos calling all day long! This is in Warwickshire :-)0
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This year I have heard more than usual here in the Preseli Hills, Pembrokeshire.0
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